Biography: George Melachrino, George Mitchell, George Perle, George Smart, George Stephanescu, George Szell, George Whitefield Chadwick, Gabriel Bataille, Georges Aperghis, Georges Auric,

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George Melachrino Biography, Photos, Pictures

British composer/arranger George Melachrino is famous for his Moods in Music series, which attempted to provide a soundtrack for everyday events like dining, working, and romance

George Mitchell Biography, Photos, Pictures

When the history of the UK album charts is written, there will not be many artists who managed to top the charts with their first three album releases Although a more common occurrence recently, in the first 50 years there were just nine acts who achieved this feat: the Beatles (of course), Oasis, Coldplay, George Michael, Robbie Williams, the boy bands Boyzone and Blue, Avril Lavigne, and the George Mitchell Minstrels

George Perle Biography, Photos, Pictures

Perle received his PhD at New York University and has enjoyed a distinguished career as a composer and professor of composition at many fine universities throughout the USA His main focus has been creating a systematic approach to 12-tone composition that creates new chords, modes and keys

George Smart Biography, Photos, Pictures

Though Smart was an English gentleman of great musical skill he was not and is not known for his compositional forte He was a leading director of music who was an accomplished keyboard player both on the organ and the harpsichord

George Stephanescu Biography, Photos, Pictures

This Romanian musician was a student at both the Bucharest Conservatory and the Paris Conservatory, first a pupil with Wachmann at the former and then with Auber, Thomas, Della and Marmontel at the latter

George Szell Biography, Photos, Pictures

Part of the wave of great Hungarian conductors who took over American musical life just before and after World War II (the others included Fritz Reiner, Antal Dorati, and Eugene Ormandy), George Szell quickly transformed a middling Midwestern orchestra into one of the nation’s Big Five

George Whitefield Chadwick Biography, Photos, Pictures

A member of the second school of American composers, Chadwick was a high school dropout and showed no early aptitude for music As a result of the early death of his mother, Chadwick developed an independence and self-reliance that inspired him to pursue his own scholarly and musical path

Gabriel Bataille Biography, Photos, Pictures

As a poet, composer and lutenist Gabriel Bataille had the ability to arrange the work of ohers usually writing for solo voice with lute accompaniments He was able to gain favor in service to the French Queen and, through his friendship with Ballard, was provided the opportunity to establish a musical career

Georges Aperghis Biography, Photos, Pictures

The main influences on Aperghis’s work were Xenakis and Kagel He was inspired by Kagel to create large theatrical works, many of which were absurd in character Sports et rebondissements, written to take place in a a sports hall and proposing comparisons between musicians and athletes is an example of such a work

Georges Auric Biography, Photos, Pictures

Auric studied counterpoint and fugue at the Paris Conservatoire and composition with d’Indy at The Schola Cantorum A member of Les Six, a group of modern French composers who were against expressionism and impressionism and in favor of clear melodies form and texture, Auric composed ballets, film scores, instrumental and vocal works

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